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Is There Any Way I Can Clean The Gunk Off Of This 1917 Cent?

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acloco
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 Posted 11/06/2017  7:16 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add acloco to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I would soak in VC per BadThad's suggestion.

There is NO downside on this particular coin. :)
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Interesting - I hadn't seen how Verdi-Care works, although I've thought about picking some up. Thanks for posting your results!
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@Coronet1832

I did some acetone and Verdi-Care expirements a while back if you want to check out the process and results:

http://goccf.com/t/275297
http://goccf.com/t/275977
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@spruett001

Cool! thanks for sharing your experiments - that's really helpful.
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